Collagen is a protein that is part of cartilage, bone, and other tissues in animals and humans. People use collagen from chickens for medicine. Chicken collagen is used to treat joint pain associated with many types of arthritis and surgery, as well as back pain, neck pain, and pain following injury.
Hemophilia is diagnosed with blood tests to determine if clotting factors are missing or at low levels, and which ones are causing the problem. If you have a family history of hemophilia, it is important that your doctors know the clotting factor your relatives are missing. You will probably be missing the same one.
Hemophilia is an inherited (genetically passed to the child through the parentâs DNA) bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot properly. The overwhelming majority of people with hemophilia are males. Blood contains many proteins (called clotting factors) that help stop bleeding. These clotting factors are numbered from 1 through 13, using roman numerals (such as I or X). People with hemophilia have either a low level of these clotting factors in their blood or none at all. The lower the levelâthe more serious the hemophilia. The result: problems, such as bleeding without an obvious cause and prolonged bleeding after an injury or surgery, are more likely.